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PAKISH OF WHITSOME. 23?
PARISH OF WHITSOME.
In Hilton Clnircliyard a tombstone is thus inscribed : —
" Heire lyes Christian Forrct daugbter to James Forrct of that
Ilk in Fyffe, her mother being daughter to the laird of Lethiday in
Angus, married William Soraervil of Moshat Girfilman in Clidisdail,
with whom she lived a year and being delivered of one daughter,
christianly and comfortably past from her pilgrimage to her home
and husband Christ. Junii 18. 1645.
What graces, gifts, parts, perfections rare.
Among all other women scattered are,
Unitly, fully, cleirly shined in that Star."
The estate of Forret is situated in the parish of Logie, Fifeshire ;
it belonged to a family of the same name from the reign of William
the Lion till the seventeenth century. In 14G6 John Forret of Forret
was one of an assize for clearing the marches of the Abbot of Dun-
fermline. One of the family was master stabler to James IV. ; his
son Thomas was educated by a lady of opulence, and admitted a
canon regular in the monastery of St. Colm's Inch ; he was sub-
sequently admitted to the vicarage of Dollar. He embraced the
reformed doctrines, and being subjected to an assize consisting of
Archbishop James Beaton and a convocation of bishops, he was
sentenced to death. He was burned with four others on the castle-
hiU of Edinburgh, on the 28th February, 1538.